Apparel hanger



Patented Nov. 17, 1931 burrs STATES EDWARD H. CLARKE, 0F PEORIA, ILLINOIS APPAREL HANGER Application filed October 21, 1927. Serial No. 227,811.

This invention pertains to apparel hangers, being directed particularly to a hanger for receiving coats, cloaks, and the like, and as used on that type of device found in coat rooms, waiting rooms, and closets, for ex ample, known as hooks.

The whole object of my invention is to produce for a so called hook a hanger-portion that is of considerable extent in supporting surface presented and that is so disposed as to have the correct position for properly supporting a garment, together with the fact that it has a form which will not catch the tape usually attached to a garment, particularly overcoats, when removing such garment.

As an aid to the full understanding of my invention, the accompanying drawings are provided showing the preferred manner of constructing my improved hanger.

Figure 1 shows the hanger of my invention in perspective as seen from the rear.

'Figure 2 shows the same also in perspective as seen from a slightly different angle.

Figure 8 is a side elevation of a portion of the garment hanger as I arrange it.

Figure 4: is a plan of the invention.

Figure 5 shows the invention in perspective as viewed from a position in front and at one side, produced on a slightly smaller scale, and Figure 6 is a front elevation of the same.

My hanger is constructed of a single length of Wire, preferably, due to simplicity of operations in manufacture, one end 1 being provided with screw threads, for example, by which it may be readily attached to a support, not shown. Some distance from said end the wire is doubled upon itself, an upturned loop 2 being formed as a support for a hat, for instance, the relation of the loop to the wire of which it is a part being shown most clearly in Figure 2. The doubled portions 3, 4 of the wire parallel one another and lie in close relation, the portion 4 being bent at right angles forming a limb 5 de pending from the said portion 4;, the wire thence being formed into a loop 6 by doubling the said wire upon itself, the resultant limb 7 paralleling the limb 5 and at its extremity 8 it is looped around the limb 5 and the portion 3 substantially at the root of the screw portion 1, being tightly closed upon them and holding them in a secure and rigid manner.

Particular attention is directed to the form of the said loop 6 and its disposal with respect to the limbs 5 and 7: As best shown in Figures 3 and 5 the wire of said loop is 1 away from the extremities of said portion in long sweeping portions 9 and merging into the described closely placed parallel limbs 5, 7. This arched or bowed loop being upwardly directed forms a better support for the garment and conforming to the shape of the collar and shoulders of the garment such as not to cause misshaping the same. Besides this, due to the fact that the portions 9 are disposed at a considerable angle to the arched portion of the loop, said loop taking the general form of a triangle when viewed. from above, the hangentape of the garment, not shown, cannot catch upon the extremities of the loop, or at any point on the latter in fact, and therefore cannot be broken or torn away from the garment as happens with other type of hangers of the class treated on here- 111.

Made from the proper gauge of wire the device is exceedingly strong and rugged and due to the structure of the loop 6 specifically described surpasses devices of which I am aware in the art.

I claim:

As an article of manufacture, a garment hanger comprising a single length of wire having one end thereof screw threaded, and

a first and outwardly extending arm and a second and lower arm extending downwardly and outwardly, said first arm comprising said wire and extending first upwardly and thence forwardly from said threaded portion, and thence rearwardly thus providing a double strand extending substantially parallel to said screw threaded portion, but offset therefrom, said upwardly extending portion constituting an offset from the line of said screw threaded portion, said rearward- Fj ly extending strandbeing continued downwardly paralleling said offset portion and thence extending straight downwardly, thence forwardly and finally rearwardly and upwardly closely paralleling said straight 10 downward portion and with the uppermost end encircling both of said. parallel strands at said offset and terminating at said oliset. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EDWARD H. CLARKE. 

